Lora Romero is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. She has written articles on Cooper and Stowe, as well as on minority discourse. She is currently completing a book entitled Domestic Fictions: A New Historicist Reading of the American Renaissance.
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has published essays in nineteenth-century American literature and culture and in Jewish American literature, and he is the author of Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving. He is currently writing a book on masculinity and heroism in American literature and culture.
José David Saldívar is Associate Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of The Rolando Hinojosa Reader: Essays Historical and Critical, coeditor of Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, and author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History and articles on cultural studies, Chicano literary criticism, and the institution of literary studies.
Robert Shulman has written Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions and numerous essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, culture, and politics for such journals as PMLA, American Literature, ELH, and Massachusetts Review. He is Professor of English at the University of Washington and was a visiting professor of American Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. He is currently writing a book on Political Art and the Politics of the Literary Canon: The 1930 Left Reconsidered.
Valerie Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative, she has published essays on African American feminist literature and theory. She is currently completing a book of essays on race, gender, and culture.
Cecelia Tichi is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in literary-cultural relations, and her work spans Puritan New England through the television age. Her books include New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman; Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture -851- in Modernist America; and Electronic Hearth: The Acculturation of Television in the United States.
John M. Unsworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal available on Bitnet and Internet. He has published articles on John Hawkes, Gilbert Sorrentino, Carlos Baker, Wallace Stevens, Henry Fielding, and electronic publishing.
David Van Leer is Associate Professor of Englishand American Literature at the University of California, Davis. Author of Emerson's Epistemology, a study of Emerson and Kant, he is currently at work on a companion volume treating Poe's relation to Newtonian physics. His essays on contemporary culture for The New Republic and elsewhere are collected in The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society.
Cornel West is Professor of Religion and Director of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity; Prophetic Fragments; PostAnalytic Philosophy (coedited with John Rajchman); and The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism.
Christopher P. Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Boston College. He is the author of The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era and White Collar Fictions (forthcoming).
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Index
Aaron, Daniel, 383
Abbey, Edward, 753; The Brave Cowboy, 459; Desert Solitaire, 459; Hayduke Lives, 459; Jonathan Troy, 459; The Monkey Wrench Gang, 459
Abish, Walter, 753; Alphabetical Africa, 736; How German Is It, 737 -39
Abolition, 140 -43, 218 -22; Emerson and, 130 -31; Melville and, 150 -51; slave narratives and, 39–41; Uncle Tom's Cabin and, 144 -46
Abolitionists: Poe's view, 97 -98; women, views of, 101
Abortion, fictional account, 354
Abrams, M. H., 10
Academia: and literary success, 692 -94; male novelists and, 46; and postmodernism, 516 -17; post-World War II, 488 -89
Acculturation: Native American, in Canada, 576; novels of, 532 -34
Achebe, Chinua, Anthills of the Savannah, 665
Acker, Kathy, 698, 699, 706, 723 -24, 753- 54; The Adult Life of Henri Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, 723; The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, 723; Don Quixote, 699, 723; Hello I'm Erica Jong, 723;
Kathy Goes to Haiti, 699; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 723
Adamic, Louis, 400
Adams, Andy, The Log of a Cowboy, 439
Adams, Brooks, 250
Adams, Henry, Democracy, 157
Adams, John, 13
Addams, Jane, 125, 269; Twenty Years at Hull House, 381
Adisa, Opal Palmer, 653
Adorno, Theodor, 210, 679
Adultery novels, Fitzgerald and, 324
Adventure fiction, 289, 359 -60, 378 79; antebellum novels, 51; detective novels, 372 -78; frontier novels, 438; late nineteenth century, 257 -58; of Melville, 80; Westerns, 366 -71; by women, 52
Advertising of books, 53
Aesthetics: liberated, Coover and, 735; male definition, 46
Aesthetic standards, American literary canon and, 128
Affectionate appropriation, slavery and, 99 -100
Africa, Canadian novels set in, 584
African Americans, 98-100, 409 -13; antebellum, 55; Du Bois and, 206 10; Faulkner and, 427 -30; Mailer -853- African Americans (Continued) and, 493; migration of, 408; and post-Civil War reconciliation, 247 48; writings about, 417 -20 — women, 268, 269; and domesticity, 127 -28; Hurston and, 423 -24; as writers, 270, 273, 283, 496
— writers, 421 -25; antislavery, 150 53; autobiographical writings, 37 41; late nineteenth-century realist, 178 -81; late twentieth century, 495 -97; postmodern, 522 -23, 529 30, 699; proletarian fiction by, 346 50; and reform movements, 154; regional fiction, 430 -36; and romance, 105; and temperance movement, 142; and women's issues, 152 -53
African peoples: and English language, 656; importation of, 92; postcolonial societies, 668
Age of Protest and Reform, 216, 228
Agrarian movement, 408, 414
Agrarian revolt, fiction of, 235 -36
Agustin, José: Ciudades desiertas, 631; "Cuál es la onda," 631; De perfil, 631; Se está hacienco tarde, 631
Aidoo, Area Ata, 667
Alcohol consumption, nineteenth century, 136
Alcott, Louisa May, 126, 754; Behind a Mask, 120; Little Women, 113, 121; Work, 125
Alcott, William, 137
Alegría, Claribel, No me agarran viva: La mujer salvadoreña en la lucha (They'll Never Take Me Alive), 647
Alegría, Fernando, 523
Alexander, Meena, 653
Alger, Horatio, 298, 357, 754; Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York, 357; Struggling Upward, 358
Algren, Nelson: The Man with the Golden Arm, 341; Somebody in Boots, 341; A Walk on the Wild Side, 341
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 13
Alienation, post- World War II, 487, 492
Allegory, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as, 256
Allen, Garland, 211